Benya Krik
Беня Крик
★ 5.8·1926·1h 21min·Drama
Overview
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
- Director
- Vladimir Vilner
- Original language
- Russian
- Status
- Released (Apr 28, 1926)
Cast
20 people
Matvei LyarovMendel Krik
Yurii ShumskyiBenya Krik, Mendel's son- AGAnna GorichevaDvoira, Benya's sister
- AVAbram VabnikLazar Spilgagen, Dvoira's fiancé
Mykola NademskyiKolka Pakovskiy- TBTeodor BraininLyovka Byk
- HAHeorhiy AstafyevAbdullah
- ASAleksandr SashinSavka Butsis
Osyp MerlattiFroim Grach- MSMikhail SmolenskiyMarantz, broker
- ELEvgeni LepkovskyRuvim Tartakovskiy, owner of 19 bakeries
- LBLeonid BarbeMuginstein, Tartakovskiy's clerk
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Anastasiya KozhevnikovaGypsy flower woman
Ivan ZamychkovskyiGleczik, the policeman
Mykola KuchynskyiSokovich, bailiff
Serhii MininCommissar Sobkov- ISIvan SizovKochetkov, Sobkov's assistant
Leonid ChembarskyAuctioneer / Jury member Tsysin- LGLyubov GakkebushUncredited
- SSaksaganskayaBailiff's mother (uncredited)
